Riverboat captain Ezra Paint founds one of the most memorable ranching families in the West when he leaves the dangerous Mississippi during the...
Sun Going Down (Fiction)
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The Civil War in Arizona (Nonfiction)
Publication in recent years of books on the invasion of New Mexico and Arizona have finally dispelled the nonsense that the Far West was uninvolved...
Kendrick’s Northern Cowboys
Growing up in the Texas Panhandle, I often visited a cousin who worked at the 6666 Ranch, one of the old historic outfits in Texas, so I am quite...
Mongolian Clint
By the time you read this, South Korean filmmaker Ji-woon Kim’s Mongolian-Steppes Spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad, the Weird will have been...
The Westerner/Man of the West
Although Walter Brennan won his third of three supporting actor Oscars—still the record—for his part as the “mangy old scorpion” Judge Roy Bean in...
Rabbit and the Well
Ages 6 and older: During a time of drought, Ji-Stu, the ingenious Cherokee trickster Rabbit, decides to dig a well. Wanting no part of hard work, he...
Gospel of the Gun (Fiction)
Gun-toting, menacing riders of the Disciple Gang with aliases such as Matthew, Mark, Luke and John thunder through Tombstone, Arizona. Folks wonder...
Along Came a Cowboy (Fiction)
In this contemporary Christian Romance, Dr. Rachel Donovan is a chiropractor living in a small Arkansas town. Written in first person, present...
The Bloody Texans (Fiction)
Turbulent times in the newly-birthed Lone Star State won’t stop former Mountain Man and scout Nathan Cooper from building himself a ranch. But when...
Robber’s Roost (Fiction)
This delightful story, based on an unproduced screenplay, follows a group of ne’er-do-well travelers in the post-Civil War West as they journey from...
Louis L’Amour, A Memoir (Nonfiction)
Louis L’Amour, best known for his popular frontier novels and stories, was a tireless reader of great literature and eventually had a personal...
The Feud That Wasn’t (Nonfiction)
This book has more violence per page than anything I’ve ever read. Rather than a feud of any kind, the action here entails murders, robberies and...